The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.